Glenn Greenwald: I didn't want to be representing rich people. I wanted to be suing them.
Robert Whitaker: We are always looking for easy money, but we are perhaps even more eager for a good emotion.
Amanda Hess: It is time for us to recognize the hug for the charade that it is.
Maddie Biron, 16: I post for the likes. ... [But] I don't mind not being famous. I wouldn't want to give up my sense of privacy.
Manohla Dargis: Every so often, someone says something that puts the stakes and intensifying throb of fear into unambiguous perspective.
Dan Geer: As society becomes more technologic, even the mundane comes to depend on distant digital perfection. Our food pipeline contains less than a week's supply, just to take one example, and that pipeline depends on digital services for everything from GPS driven tractors to robot vegetable sorting machinery to coast-to-coast logistics to RFID-tagged livestock. Is all the technologic dependency and the data that fuels it making us more resilient or more fragile?
Nicola: Each silvery ship floating through the air represented up to 33 million potential sausage casings, sacrificed to the Kaiser's nationalist cause. And thus the dawn of aerial bombardment -- and, with it, the contemporary model of total war -- was dependent on a sausage-free civilian diet, in one of the more unusual examples of the militarisation of food.
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